Paintings by Annie Louisa Swynnerton A R A
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Miss Elizabeth Williamson on a Pony (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.2.)
1906, oil on canvas, 1682 x 1312 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number N05019. Presented to the Tate Collection by F. Howard in 1939.New Risen Hope
1904, oil on canvas, 570 x 519 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number N03952. Presented to the Tate Collection by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest in 1924.
In this unusual picture a young girl emerges from a pool of water, her large eyes engaging the viewer directly. The expressive brushwork and lurid colours create the appearance of a magical underworld like that described by Charles Kingsley in The Water Babies (1863). Swynnerton was actively involved with the campaign for the emancipation of women, and the subject and title of the painting may be a reference to this. The child, ascending from the murky waters, represents a new era which will bring equal rights for women.
(From the display caption September 2004)
A young girl with sparkling eyes and a cupid's-bow mouth splashes in the shallows. Despite the winsome nature of this tot, Swynnerton has avoided the temptation to make her too pinkly glowing; in fact this is a textbook example of how to achieve subtly realistic flesh tones by the old-fashioned use of a warm grey underpainting, allowed to show through in places.Oreads (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.10.)
1907, oil on canvas, 1778 x 1778 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number N03619. Presented to the Tate Collection by John Singer Sargent in 1922.The Convalescent (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.12.)
1929, oil on canvas, 571 x 635 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number: N04473. Presented to the Tate Collection by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest in 1929.Dame Millicent Fawcett, C.B.E., LL.D. (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.3.)
1930, oil on canvas, 825 x 774 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number: N04545. Presented to the Tate Collection by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest in 1930.Count Zouboff (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.6.)
1931, oil on canvas, 1934 x 1538 mm. Tate Collections, Accession Number: N04656. Presented to the Tate Collection by Messrs Wallis and Son 1932.Head of a Bacchante (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.11.)
1903, oil on canvas, 460 x 410 mm. Signed Annie L Swynnerton 1903. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford 1903 - Accession Number: 1937WA1937.118. Presented by Mrs. Richard Shute.
This painting was probably made from a local model, the garland added to raise the subject from a simple portrait.The Letter (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.1.)
1900-1920, oil on canvas, 1016 x 482 mm. The Royal Academy of Arts Collection, Accession Number: 03/882. Purchased by The Royal Academy of Arts from Annie Swynnerton, A.R.A., in 1934 ( a year after her death!).Mater Triumphalis (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.2.)
1892, oil on canvas, 1670 mm x 680mm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France, Accession number: RF1977 432, JdeP 230.The Sense of Sight (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.12 No.7.)
1895, oil on canvas, 873 x 1010 mm. National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery - Accession Number: WAG2640.
Angel with a remarkably plain hairdo gazes upwards! The senses were a favourite subject for artists in the 17th century. They were usually represented in a fairly literal manner. Swynnerton, however, has painted an angel who seems to have descended to earth and now relies on her sight to re-establish her links with heaven. Her rapturous expression suggests not just sight but a vision.Cupid and Psyche (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.12 No.8.)
1890, oil on canvas, 1470 x 910 mm. Oldham Art Gallery, Accession No. 4.92. A gift from Charles Edward Lees, 1892.
Cupid, with blue wings after Strudwick, kisses Psyche.The Dreamer (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.4.)
1887, oil on canvas, 533 x 428 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.267.
Head and chest frontal portrait of a young peasant woman with a scarf over her head and a patterned shawl pulled about her shoulders. She holds a ball of wool in her right hand, a piece of knitting on three needles in her left hand, her head tilted slightly to the left, looking toward the viewer. Landscape background of white cottages amongst bare woodland trees.The Reverend William Gaskell (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.4.)
1879, oil on canvas, 866 x 711 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1914.1.
Half length, three-quarter left side portrait of Unitarian minister Reverend William Gaskell. An elderly man with white hair and white side whiskers, wearing a black jacket and neck tie, he is shown sitting to the side of a table to right, on which lies a folded newspaper, his hands clasped together in his lap. Plain shadowy background, inscribed to right above sitter's shoulder GVLIELMVS GASKELL / AET AT LXXIII / MDCCCLXXIX.The Town of Siena
Oil on canvas, 378 x 510 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.210. Louisa Mary Garrett Bequest.
View of the hill town of Siena, looking up toward the clustered, haphazard buildings around central church(?) at the top of the hill. A road up the hillside, lined with houses, visible in bottom left corner.Montagna Mia
Circa 1923, oil on canvas, 1123 x 1830 mm. Manchester Art Gallery. Annie Swynnerton bequest.
A mystical scene depicting a naked woman lying across what appears to be a mountain range, her hands reaching back clasped behind her head and her eyes closed. Her lower torso disappears into a mist to the left, a pale moon shining overhead. Painted predominantly in blue, grey and lilac tones.Mrs A Scott-Elliot and Children
1912, oil on canvas, 1684 x 1693 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1923.38.
Full-length portrait within circular frame, of a woman, Mrs Scott-Elliot, sitting in a garden beneath a fruiting apple tree with her hands clasped about her knees. Two young children, a boy and a girl both dressed in white, sit either side of her, holding onto her arms, a small black pet dog sitting to the left behind the small girl. Dappled sunlight falls across the figures through heavy foliage behind.Crossing the Stream (unfinished)
1886, oil on canvas, 1262 x 740 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.212. Louisa Mary Garrett Bequest.
Unfinished scene of two young girls crossing a woodland stream. Fair haired girl to right in pale dress, with her hands raised and one bare foot outstretched, dark haired girl behind her to the left, pulling a dark shawl across her shoulders. Stream to left runs off into the background, lined on either side with trees.The Southing of the Sun
1911, oil on canvas, 1119 x 889 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1923.47.
Three-quarter length figure subject of an elderly Mediterranean peasant woman, dressed in simple skirt and bodice with her hands turned outwards from her sides in gesture. Slightly hazy sunlit mountain setting, the sunlight catching the woman's hair and the edges of her clothes.Italian Landscape
Oil on canvas, 843 x 1191 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1939.20. Bequeathed by Dr. Jane Walker, CH, LLD, 1939.
Impressionistic Italian landscape scene beneath a vibrant blue sky. Patches of grassland with old gnarled trees in the foreground to left and right, giving way to mountains in the distance.Rain-clouds, Monte Gennaro
1904, oil on canvas, 306 x 630 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.206. Bequeathed by Mrs Louisa Mary Garrett.
Italian landscape looking across a wide plain from a hillside in foreground to right, dominated by heavy rain clouds in the sky to right.Interior of San Miniato, Florence
1881, oil on canvas, 260 x 304 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.211. Louisa Mary Garrett Bequest, 1936.
Interior view of San Miniato in Florence, a corridor defined by archways and Corinthian pillars to left, leading up to a small closed door in the wall to right. Heavily decorated wall and second door on far right, to this side of pillared arches.Illusions (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.8.)
1900, oil on canvas, 680 x 510 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.207. Louisa Mary Garrett Bequest, 1936.
Half-length portrait of a young girl with wispy blond hair, dressed in a suit of armour and chain mail with her hands raised to her chest in gesture. Background of dense trees with dappled sunlight falling on the girl from the left.The Vagrant
Oil on canvas, 740 x 594 mm. Manchester Art Gallery 1922 - Accession Number: 1934.14. Annie Swynnerton Bequest.
Three-quarter length frontal portrait of an old gypsy woman with white hair, crouching down and leaning forward with one palm open toward the viewer, the other hand raised in gesture. Indistinct landscape background with buildings in the distance to left.Adoration of the Infant Christ (After Perugino) (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.1.)
Oil on panel, 597 x 906 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1934.12. Annie Swynnerton Bequest.
Scene depicting the Adoration of the Infant Christ, within arched canvas, taken from painting by Perugino. The baby Jesus lies on the ground in the centre of the picture with Mary to right and Joseph to left, both kneeling before the child with their arms folded and crossed in prayer. In the background to centre and left the three shepherds kneel in similar attitude. Heavy wooden stable frame above, cow and donkey in a pen in the background to right. Hills in the distance to left.The Olive Gatherers
1889, oil on canvas, 385 x 710 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.268.
Wide panoramic view across the plains of Lombardy towards a hazy mountain range on the horizon. Olive groves in the foreground to left and right, small figures of olive gatherers at work in foreground to left of centre.An Italian Mother and Child
1886, oil on canvas, 1258 x 735 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1936.208. Louisa Mary Garrett Bequest.
A scene depicting a young Italian mother in simple peasant dress, sitting in an ivy covered archway with a small child standing on her lap. The woman, sitting on the left, wears a white headdress with a white blouse and skirt, a dark garment covering part of her lap. The child is dressed in a blue dress with a white undergarment and a gold medallion necklace around her neck. The mother supports her child with her left hand, holding the child's right hand with her right. In the background there is a Romanesque church with mosaics of saints between the windows, and roundels with blue decoration along the top of the building. A tiled roof slopes down from the building on the right with trees behind.S. Isabel Dacre (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.7.)
1880, oil on canvas,,703 x 519 mm. Manchester Art Gallery - Accession Number: 1932.15. Donated by Susan Dacre in 1932.
Half-length frontal portrait of artist Susan Isabel Dacre, with short dark hair and a black fur-edged cape about her shoulders. She turns her face slightly to the right. Plain dark background inscribed in top left corner with dedication 'A mon amir / S. Isabel Dacre'.Summer Idyll (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.6.)
1912, oil on canvas 2348 x 2196 mm. Lot 13 at Christie's, South Kensington, 17 November 1988. Present location unknown.Oleander (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.4.)
1883, oil on panel, 200 x 275 mm. Auctioned at Phillips on 4 March 1999; Sotheby's, London, 2 December 2002. Present location unknown.Portrait of a Boy (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.2.)
Oil on panel (with goldleaf) 432 x 289 mm. Auctioned at Christie's, London, 15 June 1990. Present location unknown.Portrait of Colwyn E. A. Philipps (eldest son of the Viscount St Davids, G. B. E.) (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.9.)
Oil on canvas, 845 x 820 mm. Signed indistinctly lower right Annie L Swynnerton. Inscripted upper left COLWYN E. A. PHILIPPS. Exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1931. Auctioned at Deutscher & Menzies, Australia, 26 November 2003 for $6,500. Present location unknown.Portrait of Miss Jane Atkinson
Oil on canvas. Present location unknown. No image found on the web.Joan of Arc (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.13 No.3.)
1904, oil on canvas, 890 x 790 mm. Auctioned at Sotheby's 23 June 1981, Christie's, Rome, 4 December 1984, Sotheby's 14 December 2006 and again 3 October 2007. Present location unknown.The Glow Worm (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.14 No.7.)
1900, oil on canvas. Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy.The Young Mother (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.12 No.7.)
1912, oil on canvas, 530 x 337 mm. Dublin City Gallery.David and Jonathan Fenwick (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.12 No.8.)
Oil on canvas.Portrait of Lady Mercy Marter (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.3 No.9.)
1920, oil on canvas, 93" x 62". International Auction Records 1969 Vol.111 No.459 $176 70 guineas.
Equestrian portrait of Lady Mercy Marter, daugher of Frances, Countess of Warwick.Portrait of Edward Michael Hopton
1890, oil on canvas, 36" x 24". Sold as a pair with the below, Sotheby's, 21 March 2007. Present location unknown.Portrait of Guy William Hopton
1890, oil on canvas, 36" x 24". Sold as a pair with the above, Sotheby's, 21 March 2007. Present location unknown.Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas, 571 x 457 mm. Auctioned at Christie's South Kensington, 7 September, 2005. Present location unknown.George Lewis, seated full length, in a Garden
1914, oil on canvas, 1030 x 790 mm. Auctioned at Christie's South Kensington, 23 May 2002. Present location unknown.The Harpsichord Recital
Oil on canvas, 27" x 35". Bristol Auction 7 November 1999. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Girl with a Lamb (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.9.)
Unfinished, oil on canvas, 665 x 660 mm. Brighton & Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Accession no. FA000310.Oceanid (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.10.)
1908, oil on canvas, 1700 x 1800 mm. Bradford Museum and Galleries.Mrs Florence Musgrave (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.11.)
Oil on canvas, 495 x 406 mm. Nottingham City Museum and Galleries.Geoffrey and Christopher Herringham (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.15 No.12.)
1899, oil on canvas, 915 x 915 mm. Royal Holloway University of London.Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Williamson (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.3.)
1906, oil on canvas, 13.25" x 11.25". Tate Gallery. Presented by Chris Thomson, in memory of Susan Thomson 2013. Reference T13927.Evelyn, daughter of Vernon Bellhouse
1911, oil on canvas. Georgetown University Library.
The art critic of the Observer said of it, "The picture is so original in conception, so firm in construction, so daring in treatment, so uncompromising in its rejection of easy expedients to obtain pretty effects, that it may be said to stand alone among the portraits in Burlington House."Landscape with trees
Oil on canvas, 1020 x 641 mm. Aberdeen Art Gallery, Accession no. ABDAG003764. Presented in 1955 by the Hon. Gertrude Forbes Sempill.Assisi
1883-1910, oil on canvas, 426 x 327 mm. Birmingham Museum, Accession no. 1935P78.Study of Flowers in a Meadow
Oil on canvas, 25" x 21". Provenance: Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield 1953, lent by Sir Gerald and Lady Kelly. Sold for £700 by John Nicholsons Fine Art Auctioneer and Valuer, November 23rd 2016. Present location unknown.The Bluebell Wood
Oil on canvas, 15" x 23". Sold by Michael J Bowman, Cornwall, 2007, est. £400-£600. Present location unknown.Cherubs above the sea
Oil on panel; Triptych, 21" x 16.5" (x1) and 21" x 13" (x2). Provenance: removed from St.Thomas Church, Ardwick Green, Manchester, when the church closed in 1978. Sold by Mallams, Oxford, June 8 2007 for £2800. Present location unknown.The Barren Fig Tree
Oil on canvas, 500 x 290 mm. Signed lower right, "Anna Swynnerton". Provenance: Christie's London sale, lot 162, 9 July 1920, The Property of Mrs Charles Hunter, 31 Portland Place, London W1. Sold by Cheffins, Cambridge, March 24 1010 for £1000. Present location unknown.Study of a Young Girl
1930, oil on canvas, 490 x 390 mm. Signed "Anne L Swynnerton". Sold at auction by Clevedon Salerooms, November 19th 2015. Present location unknown.Portrait of a young Italian man
Oil on canvas, 361 x 305 mm. Signed "Annie L Swynnerton". Sold at auction 28th January 201, The Penzance Auction House, Alverton, Penzance, Cornwall. Present location unknown.Coastal Landscape with Cliffs and Lighthouse
Watercolour, 535 x 735 mm. Present location unknown.Full-length portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet of roses
1878, Oil on canvas, 76" x 45". Sold at auction 21st March 2017 for £4600. Present location unknown.Three-quarter length Portrait of a Lady by flowering Ivy
Oil on canvas, 50" x 29". Sold by Keys Fine Art Auctioneers, Aylsham, Norfolk, August 8th 2014. Est. £1000-£1500. Present location unknown.Where Shattered Mountains Lie
1930, oil on canvas, 26" x 50". Sold, Phillips, March 6th 1991. Present location unknown. No image found on web.A Man's Best Friend
1908, oil on canvas, 900 x 650 mm. Sold, Bearne's, Exeter, July 5th 2006. Present location unknown.Study of cattle by a cart
16.5" x 25.3", signed "Mrs Swynnerton, Wonderlands, Wootton, near Canterbury". Sold, Bonhams, London, March 12 2002. Auction notes, "Mrs Joseph William Swynnerton, nee Annie Louisa Robinson". Present location unknown. No image found on web.Blossom time
1888, oil on canvas, 610 x 514 mm. Signed and dated 1888. Sold, Sotheby's New York, 6 November 1991. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Sheltering from the Rain
1874, oil on canvas, 900 x 700 mm. Sold by Christies, London, 9 March 1995. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Staring out to sea, Bay of Naples
1883, oil on canvas, 49" x 19". Sold Sotheby's, Billinghurst, 23 October 1996. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Portrait of Lilie, daughter of Mr McGrath
Oil on canvas, 750 x 620 mm. Signed and inscribed label to frame. Sold Sotheby's, Billinghurst, 23 May 1994; Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, 8 July 2011. Present location unknown.Young child, standing by a copper kettle in a landscape.
1876, oil on canvas, 990 x 712 mm. Present location unknown. No image found on web.A thirsty child
1876, oil on canvas, 1090 x 740 mm. Sold Sotheby's, Billinghurst, 14 May 1991. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Un Putto
Oil on canvas, 405 x 330 mm. Present location unknown.The little sentinel
1875, oil on canvas, 39" x 29". Sold by Phillips, London, 13 November 1990. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Green apple harvest
1878, oil on board, 12" x 8". Sold by Phillips, London, 12 July 1988. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Study of hands
Oil on canvas, 15" x 12". Sold by Christie's, London, 6 March 1986. Present location unknown. No image found on web.A Florentine Madonna
1881, oil on canvas, 33" x 24". Sold by Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1970. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Boys bathing
Oil on canvas, 22" x 32". Sold by Phillips, London, 21 October 1980. Present location unknown. No image found on web.Portrait of Peter Grant Lawson
1931, oil on canvas, 77" x 65". Sold Jackson, Stopps and Staff, London, 16th April 1980. Present location unknown. No image found on web.A Dryad
Oil on canvas, 330 x 292 mm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Accession no. 2186. Bequeathed by Mrs A J MacLaren, 1940.Oil sketch of a pony
Oil on canvas, 594 x 392 mm. Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Accession no., 1944.72. Gift from Mrs M Taylor, 1944.The Soul's Journey: The Soul's Awakening
Oil on canvas, 1003 x 1613 mm. Glasgow Museums & Resource Centre, Accession no. NR.53. Gift from Francis Howard, 1952.Margaret and Chrystian, the Daughters of D C Guthrie (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.7.)
Circular, 1310 mm. Provenance: D C Guthrie, the sitters' father, thence by descent to the vendor at auction by Mellors & Kirk, November 27th 2013. Present location unknown.
This beautiful plein air portrait of two little girls encapsulates both the sitters' joie de vivre and Swynnerton`s vitality. The influence of her close friend John Singer Sargent is especially evident with her bravura technique, lighting and palette resulting in, at her best, works of remarkable éclat. A versatile artist, she also painted allegorical subjects, some strongly reminiscent of the symbolism of G F Watts, others of an almost pre-raphaelite intensity. It is in her major portraiture such as the finely preserved, unvarnished, Guthrie Children, painted in one of those golden Edwardian summers, that her spontaneity and empathy are such striking features. The children were the daughters of David Guthrie, MP (1858-1932), of Craigie, Dundee and East Haddon Hall (1861-1918) and his wife Mary daughter of Andrew Low of Savannah.Tryst, or A Salford Lass
1880, oil on canvas, 1140 x 785 mm. Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Accession no. 1880-2. Gift from H Boddington, Jnr, 1880, who bought it immediately after it was exhibited.Study of a goat
Oil on board, 386 x 445 mm. Present location unknown. No image found on web.
A little boy with a shetland pony, 1917 )
1917, oil on canvas, 2273 x 1296 mm. Present location unknown.
Agathonike, daughter of W Craies Esq
Oil on canvas, size unknown. Exhibited 1892, New Gallery, London. Known only from a black-and-white print on Ebay from the London Illustrated News, May 1892. Present location unknown.Portrait of a lady
Oil on canvas, size unknown. Exhibited 1893, New Gallery, London. Known only from a black-and-white print on Ebay from the London Illustrated News, August 1893. Present location unknown.The Debutante (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol.16 No.6.)
1893, oil on canvas, 48" x 28.5". Richard Taylor Fine Art, Dudley WM. Private commission, never exhibited.
Portrait of Miss Elsie Elizabeth Ebsworth commissioned on her engagement to her future husband, Mr George Swinton.Maternité
Oil on panel, 10.63" x 10.63". Attributed to Annie Swynnerton. Present location unknown.Charles Fenwick
Oil on canvas, size unknown. Known only from a print for sale from Medici posters. Present location unknown.Florence Nightingale at Scutari (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol. No. .)
Oil on canvas, size unknown. Untraced. Exhibited at Chicago World's Exhibition, 1893.
Florence Nightingale standing among sick and wounded in Scutari hospital.Portrait of Agnes Garrett
1885, oil on canvas, size unknown. Present location unknown. Known only from a reference in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, by Elizabeth Crawford.Portrait of Louisa Garrett
1885, oil on canvas, size unknown. Present location unknown. Known only from a reference in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, by Elizabeth Crawford.Portrait of Henry James
Oil on canvas, 22 5/8" x 20 1/8". Exhibited in Manchester 1932, Whitechapel 1939. Sold on her death in an artist's studio sale by Christies in 1934 for 18 guineas. Sold in 2008, also by Christies, with an estimate of £8-12000, which was realised. Present location unknown.Bessie, wife of Colonel Massy (Shown in Swinnerton Society Journal Vol. No. .)
Details unknown. Known only from a review of the exhibition at the Royal Academy by Arthur T Froggatt in the Musical Times, 1st June 1927. Present location unknown. No image found on web.